Shopping
Paducah has 4 separate vendor areas onsite at the convention center, and then there's dozens more vendors scattered throughout the city--including the supercool AQS "hurt books" sale, where books are $5 ( including a good number one can buy for 5-6x more on the sales floor). Here are some random observations about the shopping: --Prices do vary booth to booth by 2-5 dollars on items, which was surprising to me. --Some booths are rocking awesome style & super friendly staff. Others are chilly and sterile. And it doesn't correlate to price. --Almost all the sewing machine salespeople are hardcore deal closers. It's worse than a used car lot. I was trying out the smaller quilting machines thinking I could get a buy-in point that would be less than the cost of a car. Whew--was I wrong (with one exception). But it was hard to extricate once I sat at a machine. Ick! After playing around with it & researching online, I did buy a stripped down "2...